Sentences with phrase «of pneumococcal disease»

«As a result, we can extend beyond the 13 types of sugars, potentially providing universal coverage against bacteria that cause pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis and other types of pneumococcal disease.

The study represents the «most comprehensive» coverage of pneumococcal disease to date, researchers say.

«We have shown that HIV - infected and HIV - exposed children experience a disproportionate burden of pneumococcal disease.

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Across the provinces and territories, vaccination rates for preventable diseases like influenza, pertussis (whooping cough) and pneumococcal (pneumonia) infections are well below national immunization uptake targets of around 80 percent.

In fact, there are about 90 diseases related to pneumococcal disease, and most babies are vaccinated against 13 of them (known as the PV13 vaccine).

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Authorities of the Ghana Health Service in the Eastern Region, have confirmed to Citi News the death of a 17 - year - old boy, killed by the fast spreading the Pneumococcal meningitis disease.

A team led by Ron Dagan, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Soroka University Medical Center in Beer - Sheva, Israel, wanted to know if a new pneumococcal vaccine based on tetanus toxoid would change infants» immune responses to the standard regimen of vaccines, including those for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP), and Haemophilus influenzae type B, which protects against meningitis.

Vaccination with the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine - 7 [PCV7 — a vaccine that covers 7 strains (serotypes) of Streptococcus pneumoniae] is linked to overall decreases in the rate of serious infections caused by this bacterium, such as pneumonia and meningitis, referred to as invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD)-RSB-, but small increases in IPD caused by serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae not covered by the vaccine (referred to as non-vaccine type IPD), according to a study published in PLOS Medicine this week.

The study, titled: Effects of Vaccination on Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in South Africa, published in the latest edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), compares IPD incidence after the introduction of PCV (post-introduction: 2011 and 2012) to incidence prior to its introduction (2005 - 2008), focusing on high - risk groups.

The majority of resistant strains of pneumococcus are of types which are included in the vaccine, for this reason, vaccine introduction in South Africa, has led to a substantial decline in antibiotic resistant invasive pneumococcal disease,» said Dr Cheryl Cohen, co-author of the paper, Clinical Epidemiologist at the NICD and senior lecturer in the School of Public Health at Wits.

Although incidence of HIV among infants is decreasing in South Africa due to improved prevention of the mother - to - child HIV transmission and the use of anti-retrovirals, a large number of HIV - exposed yet uninfected children remain, for whom vaccination against pneumococcal disease may be of particular importance to ensuring reduced risk of life - threatening infections in childhood.

«Our findings confirm the utmost importance of co-contribution of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines in reduction of burden of severe diarrhea and respiratory diseases reduction, especially during winter, the season with peak hospitalization rates of young children,» said principal investigator, Ron Dagan, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Israel.

Now, a new vaccine under development could deal another blow to the disease, lowering the number of deaths even further by targeting dozens of additional strains of S. pneumoniae, and anticipating future versions of the bacteria responsible for pneumococcal disease, which includes sepsis and meningitis.

Research sheds light on initial phase of infectious disease and potential for prevention of pneumococcal septicaemia

Addressing these questions is particularly important for Streptococcus pneumoniae, a nasopharyngeal commensal and respiratory pathogen, because the changes in population structure associated with the recent introduction of partial - coverage vaccines have substantially reduced pneumococcal disease.

In February 2002, the 7 - valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (7vPCV)(Prevenar; Wyeth, Sydney) was provided free in NSW for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants and others at high risk of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) at two, four and six months of age.1 This was a response to higher rates of IPD in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children compared with the total child population.2 (For ease of reporting, henceforth Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander will be referred to as Aboriginal.)

For example, pneumonia is a disease, but there are many types of pneumonia — e.g., pneumococcal pneumonia and bronchopneumonia — each of which has more specific symptoms, and each of which could reasonably be considered a syndrome (although common usage may not utilize the term).